Community EngagementApril 2020-July 2020 AmeriCorps is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. Through the program, I focused on community engagement for the Memphis Housing Authority. Housing programs of MHA affords eligible families the opportunity to obtain decent, safe, sanitary and affordable rental housing and creates a pathway for individuals and families to become self-sufficient. In recent years, Memphis Housing Authority along with many other community partners have engaged in efforts to change the landscape of Memphis by re imagining traditional public housing and making investments in the transformation of housing, people. As the community engagement officer, I employed my marketing background to enhance MHA's social media presence on two major platforms. I analyzed social media analytics and created a social media calendar in order to develop creative and informative content for all outreach events. I re-designed and created marketing and promotional materials to support all MHA programs including the distribution and printing. Some of my favorite tasks were developing and implementing community outreach events. This included volunteering at mobile food pantries to fight food insecurity and hunger during COVID-19, and developing an internship program for students to enhance their personal and professional background. |
Airfreight Export AgentSeptember 2018-March 2020 Kuehne+Nagel is a global freight forwarding company located in over 100 countries and holds the #1 spot in Sea freight forwarding and #2 in Air freight forwarding. With Kuehne and Nagel I plan, organize, coordinate, arrange, monitor the transportation and movement of goods for my two main customers. This requires daily communication with overseas offices, and airlines. I am able to use my Spanish language on a daily basis to enhance relationships with KN offices in Latin America, along with the Miami Gateway. Overall, I have been able to succesfully meet 80-100% KPI on-time delivery to over 15 lanes to Latin America. On February 13th, I visited the KN Tokyo office to delve into the differences in culture and operations. Upon my return, I gave insight to my export team on how to improve our processes to better enhance our relationship with the KN Tokyo import team. Additionally, I was able to offer advice on how to streamline our team inbox emails to avoid missing shipments and pickups. This was an amazing experience to take away knowledge about Japan's culture, business structure, and economy. |
Copywriter InternJanuary 2018-December 2018 As the Copywriter Intern for One Step Initiative, I develop enticing and engaging content to spread their mission and vision for young students to travel internationally. I have been able to equip my passions for traveling and student development throughout this internship. My success is concentrated on the personal development of a fully executed marketing plan where I doubled the engagement and followers on their social media platforms. This social media marketing plan lasted for two months where I gained a lot of knowledge on how to effectively market a non-profit organization and creatively create content that would entice people to listen and read OSI's mission for students. |
Volunteer CoordinatorSeptember 2015-December 2018 I have been the volunteer coordinator for the Sustainability Office under the University of memphis for a total of three years. Through this internship, I am proud to have launched a food recovery program to recover and donate leftover food off campus. The University of Memphis is now apart of the national Food Recovery Network and our program alone has been able to donate over 1,000 lbs of food each year to H.O.P.E. Memphis. Additionally, I orchestrate and operate various sustainability events and recruit and retain dedicated volunteers. Furthermore, I have helped develop our sustainability internship and continue to adapt our program to be effective for our interns to grow professionally. |
Operations & Support InternJanuary-May 2018 Memphis Catholic Middle and High School has a profound educational program that combines a work study internship program for enrolled students. As the operations and support intern, I was tasked with analyzing and organizing performance review data and updating records for student and parent information. I was also able to create various bulletin board flyers, invitations, and social media posts to engage students, staff, and sponsors/donors. |
Marketing InternTerryberry is a worldwide company that has helped organizations develop, implement and manage employee recognition programs. I started my internship with Terryberry as a Junior in high school through the summer L.E.A.D Program. As an administrative assistant, I assisted with various tasks in the marketing department including: updating website for tradeshow and webinar information, printing and trimming marketing brochures, analyzing and interpreting data, and planning and executing yearly sales force meetings. Additionally, I was able to grow in my position to becoming a marketing intern after the L.E.A.D program ended. I continued my internship experience for a total of four years and was able to take away valuable business communication, organization, and leadership skills. |